different between champeen vs snower

English

Etymology

A corruption of champion.

Noun

champeen (plural champeens)

1. (nonstandard) A champion.

   • "He's the next champeen," admitted the first speaker.

   • 1991, "Entertainment: Will Tyson Do The Encores?," Time, 12 Aug:

     In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo!

   • 2005, Paul Oerjuerge, "Armstrong untouchable to the end," The Sun (San Bernardino, USA), 24 July (retrieved 18 Oct 2010):

     So, there he goes, riding off into the golden sunset of history. Lance Armstrong, champeen of the cycling world.

Usage notes

• Originally used especially to refer to a champion in the sport of boxing, but since extended to other contexts.

Anagrams

• camphene

English

Etymology

snow +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sn???/

Noun

snower (plural snowers)

1. Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
   • c. 1957, Colonel Tom Parker, as explained in Alanna Nash, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, Simon and Schuster (2003), ?ISBN, page 155:

     […] another standard of excellence: the ability to con, or “snow.” […] ¶ The coup de grâce of Parker’s little folly was the club’s slickly produced rule book, which the Colonel called a Confidential Report Dealing with Advanced Techniques of Member Snowers, prepared by a team “notably skilled in evasiveness and ineptitude.”

   • 1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd,^[1] Coffee House Press (2002), ?ISBN, page 148:

     There was snow out on the Harlem streets, and inside the Lovejoys,^[sic] Ben Ali did a snow job on her Highness, Lady Daphne. And it required a lot of snowing by a champeen snower; the Lady was nobody’s fool.

   • 1979, Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao (translators), Qian Zhongshu (author), Fortress Besieged, New Directions Publishing (2004), ?ISBN, page 301:

     Hsin-Mei said, “ […] When I was in America, people used to call the Foreign Students Summer Club the ‘Big Three Conference’: the show-offs, the suckers, and the—uh—the girl-snowers.”

   • 1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup,^[2] Atheneum, ?ISBN, page 43:

     Maybe, Corry thought, that was what gardeners tended to in wintertime: snow. Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?”

Anagrams

• Rewson, owners, resown, rowens, sworne, worsen